The Ledger

Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.

clear all ✕

why aren't all 4 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hastings: Netflix will operate with fewer rules as it grows
“And so that's when I vowed that in starting another company, that at least we wouldn't make that mistake. That as we grew, we would try to have less rules, not more rules.”
Reed Hastings Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:55 a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
Insight
Hastings: Managing creative teams like semiconductor yield kills innovation
“You know, at Pure, I was a product guy, and I didn't think much about management, and it didn't turn out very well, so as the company grew, it got more bureaucratic we were obsessed with putting processes in place, because every time there was a mistake, we wa…”
Reed Hastings Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:26 a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
Assertion Partly supported
Hastings: Software tools companies get acquired; media companies scale independently
“So that company, Pure, was a software tools company. They always get acquired. Media companies can grow to be quite large and independent.”
Reed Hastings Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:20 a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
Assertion Supported
Hastings: Pure Software doubled annually and IPO'd one week before Netscape
“Because then I was able to start a company, it doubled every year, went public, one week before Netscape, actually, and so for one week, we were the big topic.”
Reed Hastings Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:58 a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 1,000 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.